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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Wikipedia Edit-a-thon presented by the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum with support from Wikimedia DC

When

:June 20, 2024 - 11 am – 2 pm EDT

Where

:Virtual

Description

:Did you know that less than 20% of biographies in English-language Wikipedia are about women? Help change that by joining the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on March 27th for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. Attendees will edit and create Wikipedia articles inspired by the museum’s first digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible.”

:This event will have two parts:

:1) Getting started with Wikipedia edits: 11am-12pm

:2) Wikipedia edit-a-thon: 12pm-2pm

:Attendees can join us for one of both parts depending on their availability and experience with Wikipedia editing. New editors are encouraged to attend the introductory session at 11am.

Registration

:[https://womenshistory.si.edu/events/wikipedia-edit-thon-dr-mary-edwards-walker Register]

Safe Space Policy

:[https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Safe_space_policy Wikimedia DC Safe Space Policy]

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==START HERE==

Step 1:

  • Create a Wikipedia username if you don't already have one (top right) and log-in
  • Already have an account? Simply log-in (top right)
  • Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name.

Step 2:

  • Check-in for this event using the blue button below. This helps us to track editing progress during the edit-a-thon.

:1) Select 'Check in'

:2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes'. DO NOT ADD TEXT TO THE FIELD.

:Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

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Articles to create or edit

Instructions

  1. Go to [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eP3Y8UCTGpTexVUFL4C75xQ4r0WcSlEhN7Oi5s7g9Xw/edit?usp=sharing this Google sheet] and add your username next to the article you would like to edit or create
  2. Return here to the event page and select your article's red or blue link. Red=New draft articles for creation, Blue=Existing articles
  3. Select 'Create' (for new articles), and 'Edit' for existing articles
  4. For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing. Publish as you go to avoid losing your work.
  5. Use the sources below each article name to find information and build your article/s. Be sure to cite your sources.

Tip: Open this event page in multiple tabs. You will need it quite often (mostly for sourcing) and it's easy to close inadvertently.

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Further Reading

  • Harris, Sharon M. Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical, 1832-1919. Rutgers University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0813546117 https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-press/dr-mary-walker/9780813546117/

External Links

  • Mary Walker, the “Original New Woman,” National Museum of American History https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/mary-walker-original-new-woman
  • The Persistence of Dr. Mary Walker: A New York Minute in History, WAMC podcasts
  • https://wamcpodcasts.org/podcast/the-persistence-of-dr-mary-walker-a-new-york-minute-in-history/
  • Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Collection, Oswego County Historical Society https://oswegohistorical.org/collection/mary-walker/
  • Dr. Mary Walker: A Female Civil War Surgeon, Drexel University College of Medicine Archives & Special Collections, online exhibition, https://drexel.edu/legacy-center/the-collections/exhibits/dr-mary-walker/
  • Mary Edwards Walker MD, Women in Medicine and Science at Upstate https://guides.upstate.edu/women-in-medicine/mary-edwards-walker
  • Edit Link to Book Written and Published by Mary E. Walker
  • Hit: Hit: Essays on Women’s Rights. New York: The American News Company, 1871. Reprint Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2003. New link to full ebook on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/hitessaysonwomen0000walk
  • Digital copy of the original edition: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/women-working-1800-1930/catalog/45-990021744160203941

Links to Smithsonian Collections about Walker

  • Dr. Mary Walker, Army Surgeon 20c postage stamp. National Postal Museum. https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:npm_1999.2004.259?q=Walker%2C+Mary+Edwards&fq=online_media_type%3A%22Images%22&record=7&hlterm=Walker%2C%2BMary%2BEdwards
  • Mary E. Walker, glass collodion negative, Matthew Brady Studio, 1860-1870, National Portrait Gallery. NPG.81.M1584. CC0 https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M1584?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dmary%252Bwalker
  • Dr. Mary Walker, photograph, National Museum of American History, PG.004099.45 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1943996
  • Mary E. Walker, M.D., N.P., advance publicity card, National Museum of American History, PL.310679.02. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_516359
  • Mary Walker Signature Card, National Museum of American History, PL.310679.01 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_516357
  • Dr. Mary Walker’s Shawl, around 1867. National Museum of American History, PL.314683.01 https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_518530

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  • Add photo of Barsness in uniform https://picryl.com/media/nellie-barsness-1918-in-french-uniform-703ab1
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 83, 86.
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
  • Faces of the American Medical Women’s Association: Dr. Nellie O. Barsness https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/dr-nellie-o-barsness/
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • PDF document with pictures and original documents https://history.army.mil/curriculum/wwi/docs/AdditionalResources/presentations/DrNellie.pdf
  • Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Boulder: (University of Colorado Press, 1997): 166-167, 171-172. https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/11091600.pdf

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 77, 79, 83-84.
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 15-16, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • Born in Petrolia, Ontario, Canada. Parents Alexander Clark Edward and Jennie Gertrude Dawson https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104250761/mary-lee-edward
  • “Dr. Mary Lee Edward a Learning Woman,” Kappa Alpha Theta Magazine 129, no. 2 (Winter 2014-2015): p. 30. Find on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/2015Winter/page/30/mode/2up
  • “Dr. Mary Lee Edwards, Back From War Work, Brings Urgent Invitation,” New York Herald, July 19, 1919, p. 9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-dr-mary-lee-edward-touri/101383000/
  • “Canadian Women Plan Maple Leaf Dance for Jan. 23,” New York Times, January 9, 1970, p. 23. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/09/archives/canadian-women-plan-maple-leaf-dance-for-jan-23.html
  • Dr. Mary Lee Edward Canadian Women’s Club 50th Anniversary, The Expositor, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Janu 12, 1970, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-dr-mary-lee-edward-canadia/101360615/
  • Women Leaders Memory Project, Ontario Medical Association, scroll down to Dr. Mary Lee Edward https://www.oma.org/newsroom/memory-project/women-leaders-memory-project/
  • The First Contingent of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals, Supported by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAID 533774. Dr. Mary Edward is 5th from the left. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/533774

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 77, 79, 80.
  • Seitz, Emily A. “Womanhood of the Noblest Type: Early Medical Training for Women; The Distinguished Career of Dr. Marie Formad” in Prescribing Pregnancy Loss: Women Physicians and the Changing Boundaries of Fetal Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Dissertation. Pennsylvania State University. 2021. See pages 39-43. https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/24628

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71, 76, 77 picture and caption, 78-79 picture and caption, 80, 86
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 13, 23, 24. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309

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  • Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 53rd Annual Announcement, Session of 1902-1903. See page 21-22 “The following graduates of the Class of 1901 received hospital appointments.” https://obgynhistory.net/articles/1902-WomensMedCollPenn-Rev-Apr2016.pdf
  • Image of Povitsky bottle https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/a-pyrex-povitsky-bottle-used-to-produce-polio-virus-for-vaccine-production-corning-glass-works/ugGU5dDfl7FT5g?hl=en

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 71.
  • Service de Santé, French Medical Corps
  • From the Desk of Jane Addams, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/hullhouse-blog/2022/9/13/who-was-harriet-rice-zk2lx
  • Dr. Harriet Rice: First Black Resident at Hull-House, Jane Addams Papers Project https://janeaddams.ramapo.edu/2021/08/dr-harriet-rice-first-black-resident-at-hull-house/
  • Honoring the Trailblazers: Dr. Harriet Rice, 1887, Wellesley Alumnae https://alum.wellesley.edu/waad/news/latest-news/p/~board/waad-news/post/honoring-the-trailblazers-dr-harriet-rice-1887
  • Davis Museum at Wellesley College https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/Virtual_platform/the-women-of-seed-to-harvest/node/180471
  • Dr. Harriet Rice, Gilded Age Newport in Color https://www.gildedageincolor.com/?p=91
  • Korr, Mary, “100 Years Ago – Dr. Harriet Alleyne Rice of Newport: The Struggles of an African-American Physician,” Rhode Island Medical Journal, Vol. 98 Iss. 1 (Jan 2015): 74-75. https://www.proquest.com/openview/0b420d145074d8d461c1c8382966d10d/1?cbl=24126&pq-origsite=gscholar&parentSessionId=XMSNTmS4piGr0axPbJcOB%2FvoYzsJHZkHQIeCEl2XIiY%3D

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  • Needs a robust opening paragraph
  • Create an external links section and add Uniform in collection of National Museum of American History https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1193371
  • Add source McElderry, Brenna M. and Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, “Loy McFee, MD,” Bulletin of the Indianapolis Medical Society, Vol 127, Issue 1 (January 2020): 13-14. https://indymedicalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/January-2020-Bulletin-Website.pdf
  • Bellafaire, Judith and Mercedes Herrera Graf, “Necessity’s Handmaidens: Women Contract Surgeons in World War I” in Women Doctors in War. (Texas A&M University Press, 2009): 54. Book available at the Internet Archive library.

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  • Women at War: Female Physicians’ Work During World War I, September 18, 2022, The Premed Scene https://www.thepremedscene.com/post/women-at-war-female-physicians-work-during-world-war-i
  • Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
  • Dolores Mercedes Piñero: WWI Doctor and Pioneer https://puertoricoreport.com/dolores-mercedes-pinero-wwi-doctor-pioneer/
  • Dolores Mercedes Piñero, 1892-1975 https://www.womensactivism.nyc/stories/4286
  • Zeitz, Barbara Joan. CountHerhistory. November 2012, AAUW-Illinois https://aauw-il.aauw.net/files/2013/08/nov12.pdf

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New articles for creation

Selecting a red link will allow you to start an article draft. Save as you go. When ready (today or another time), draft articles can be moved into Wikipedia mainspace.

Note: Wikipedia articles are not typically named using prefixes. For example, the article about Dr. Mary Edwards Walker is saved as Mary Edwards Walker. Prefixes can be used as they normally would within the text of the article.

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
  • Photo in Library of Congress collection https://www.loc.gov/item/2014688935/
  • Announcement of appointment as ambulance surgeon https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-commercial-buffalo-commercia/51269314/
  • “Stabbed, Reuses Fair Doctor’s Aid,” The Standard Union (Brooklyn, NY), 24 Jan 1911, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-the-standard-union-b/51264521/
  • “Saved Her Patient in Ambulance Crash,” The New York Times, February 8, 1911, p. 1.https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/02/08/106781405.html?pageNumber=1
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • “Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
  • “Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
  • Married Dr. Francis Julius Hupp on June 18, 1921. Marriage Announcement, The New York Times, 19 June 1921, p. 22. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • Died Oct 11, 1937 in Englewood, NJ. Death Announcement, New York Herald Tribune, 13 Oct 1937, p. 22A. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • Buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery, Kingston, Ulster Co, NY. Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205525729/elizabeth-armitage-hupp

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 74 picture and caption, 77, 79, 83-84, 85.
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke, “The untold story of women who risked their lives to do good – and get their rights,” CNN.com, August 16, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/opinions/suffrage-centennial-1920-world-war-i-doctors-represented-lemay/index.html
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • “The U.S. female doctors who served in WWI,” American Women in World War I, March 9, 2017 https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 3-5, 15-16, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178814549/caroline-sandford-finley
  • “Third Annual Commencement: Medical College in New York Graduate Twenty-six Persons-Interesting Exercises,” Cornell Alumni News, June 12, 1901, p. 1. Accessed April 15, 2024. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/2f4494b0-011b-45a6-b260-86456dc579f6/content
  • See “Service with the Women’s Oversea Hospitals.” https://www.amwa-doc.org/service-in-the-war/
  • “Caroline Finely Dies; Famed as Doctor in War,” New York Herald Tribune, 29 Dec 1936, p. 16. ProQuest Historical Newspapers
  • Dr. Caroline Sandford Finley, Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178814549/caroline-sandford-finley
  • Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 104, 106.

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 72, 73, 75 picture and caption, 77, 83.
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 6, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • Green-Wood Living Cemetery Biographies of World War I Veterans: Able-Isell, Search for Gregory, Alice https://www.green-wood.com/2017/biographies-of-world-war-i-veterans-part-one/
  • “Marion Gregory, translator/entertainer; Alice Gregory, surgeon” https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/marion-and-alice-gregory/
  • Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 106.
  • See “Service with the Women’s Oversea Hospitals.” https://www.amwa-doc.org/service-in-the-war/

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  • Also spelled McMahon. Sometimes spelled Ada. Lived in Lafayette, IN
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
  • “Biography of Dr. Adah M. McHahan, 1869-1942," with a list of sources https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010596187
  • Biographical sketch in The Golden Book, Indiana University, https://goldenbook.iu.edu/veteran-stories/mcmahan-adah.html
  • Indiana University and the U.S. Military, scroll to 1918 for Dr. Adah McMahan https://200.iu.edu/history/timelines/military-history.html
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23, 24. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • “Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
  • “Doctors of the Gas Unite of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
  • Dunn, Jacob Piatt, Indiana and Indianans: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood, Volume IV (Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1919): p. 1828-1829. https://books.google.com/books?id=3aL-ROKbefYC&pg=PA1828&lpg=PA1828&dq=%22dr.+adah+mcmahan%22+lafayette+indiana&source=bl&ots=7VN2LFMUOY&sig=ACfU3U0CB9arz_rwa98_x6lingU9CG1DGw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi45aSaiceFAxVSFVkFHaU7D3Q4ChDoAXoECAMQAw#v=onepage&q=%22dr.%20adah%20mcmahan%22%20lafayette%20indiana&f=false
  • “Tippecanoe County Women to Know,” Tippecanoe County Historical Association https://tippecanoehistory.org/finding-aids/tippecanoe-county-women-to-know/
  • Kriebel, Bob, “Old Lafayette: World War I Takes a Toll Locally,” Journal & Courier, October 22, 2018. https://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2018/10/22/old-lafayette-world-war-takes-toll-locally/1718938002/
  • Obituary, “Dr. Adah McMahon is Dead; Noted Doctor,” Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN), June 24, 1942, p. 1 & 10. https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-and-courier-adah-mcmahan/25322696/ (page 1) https://www.newspapers.com/article/journal-and-courier/18564812/ (page 10)
  • Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77440787/adah-mcmahan

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  • Clinton, MA
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82, 86.
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • “Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
  • “Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
  • Rimkunas, Barbara. “The life and times of Dr. Irene Morse,” Seacoastonline, February 15, 2018. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/exeter-news-letter/2018/02/15/the-life-times-dr-irene/14788031007/
  • “Dr. Irene Morse Dead,” The Burlington Free Press, June 21, 1933, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-burlington-free-press-dr-irene-mors/41411376/

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  • Death notice https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news-obituary-dr-barbar/61977949/
  • “They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War.” The Permanente Journal, Sept 8, 2020. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
  • Dr. Hunt’s report on AWH Hospital No. 1 https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2241#page/1/mode/2up
  • Photograph of Dr. Hunt https://wwionline.org/wwi-online/articles/not-waiting-call-american-women-physicians-and-world-war-i
  • “Capable and Progressive”: Women Flood Portland, July 1925. Maine History Society pdf. https://www.mainehistory.org/documents/85/newsletter_Winter2014-5.pdf
  • Dr. Barbara Hunt, consulting physician, in 1927 becomes the first woman to join the medical staff. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/198/slideshow/235/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=457&slide_num=5
  • “Dr. Barbara Hunt kindly permitted our patients the use of radium” https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/198/slideshow/235/display?use_mmn=1&format=slideshow&prev_object_id=457&slide_num=6
  • Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 108.
  • Lovejoy, Esther Pohl. Certain Samaritans. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927. Internet Archive. See pages 13, 20 (picture and caption), 21.

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  • Graduated from University of Buffalo Medical School in 1902 https://medicine.buffalo.edu/175/celebrating.html Scroll down yellow sidebar.
  • Portrait photograph from Library of Congress https://picryl.com/media/dr-louise-hurrell-director-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-seine-1c058f
  • Photo: Women’s Ward. American Women’s Hospital No. 1. Luzancy France. Dr. M. Louise Hurrell and Dr. Inez C. Bentley. https://loc.getarchive.net/media/womens-ward-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-dr-m-louise-hurrell-f11b8b
  • Photo: Executive Committee of American Women’s Hospital https://loc.getarchive.net/media/executive-committee-of-american-womens-hospital-no-1-luzancy-france-left-to-cba8dc
  • The American Women’s Hospitals in World War I France https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A1868
  • Dr. M. Louise Hurrell’s report to AWH Committee https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2208#page/1/mode/2up
  • Dr. M. Louise Hurrell’s February report on Luzancy Hospital https://doctordoctress.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868/story/islandora:2203#page/1/mode/2up
  • World Pays Tribute to Dr. Louise Hurrell https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel/29263455/
  • Not Waiting for the Call: American Women Physicians and World War I https://wwionline.org/wwi-online/articles/not-waiting-call-american-women-physicians-and-world-war-i
  • Ellen Singer More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1955. (Harvard University Press, 1999): 141-145.
  • Ellen More, “Rochester ‘Over There,’” Rochester History 51, no. 3 (Summer, 1989): 13, 23-27. https://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v51_1989/v51i3.pdf
  • Jensen, Kimberly. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008): 110.

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  • Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote https://rrlc.org/winningthevote/biographies/marion-craig-potter/
  • Biographical Description, Drexel University https://archivalcollections.drexel.edu/repositories/5/resources/1891
  • Biography, Rochester Regional Health, https://www.rochesterregional.org/about/history/rochester-medical-museum-and-archives/baker-cederberg-museum-and-archives/biographies/marion-craig-potter
  • Scroll down to find “Remarkable Rochesterians” https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2017/09/12/jim-memmott-recalling-secret-visitor-secret-kodak-project/654681001/
  • Ellen Singer More, Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1955. (Harvard University Press, 1999): 95-125.

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  • Olga Stastny, Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23618188
  • Dr. Olga Stastny, Biography, AMWA https://www.amwa-doc.org/wwibios/dr-olga-stastny/
  • Olga Stastny, Faces of AMWA https://www.amwa-doc.org/faces/dr-olga-stastny/
  • Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
  • The U.S. Female Doctors Who Served in WWI https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
  • “From the archives: Olga Stastny,” University of Nebraska Medical Center, Leon S. McGoogan Health Sciences Library https://blog.unmc.edu/library/2016/05/16/from-the-archives-olga-stastny/
  • Andrews-Koryta, Stepanka. “Dr. Olga Stastny, Her Service to Nebraska and the World.” NEBRASKA HISTORY 68, no.1 (1987): 20-27.
  • Photograph, History Nebraska https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_7f0eeb4e-b0f7-4536-a8d9-4b0389bf4cd0/
  • Nebraska State Historical Society Collection Record https://history.nebraska.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/doc_Stastny-Olga-Frances-1878-1952-RG2588.pdf
  • Czech Contributions to the Progress of Nebraska, Vladimir Kucera and Alfred, Novacek, Eds. Published 1976. See pages 152-154. https://www.unl.edu/czechheritage/contributions.pdf
  • Dr. Olga Frances Sadilek Stastny, Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96537310/olga-stastny

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  • Anne Tjomsland, Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67695468
  • The U.S. Female Doctors Who Served in World War I https://americanwomeninwwi.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/the-u-s-female-doctors-who-served-in-wwi/
  • Anne Tjomsland,1880–1968, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, October 1969, Pages 482–a–482, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXIV.4.482-a
  • Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
  • Cornell Rewind: A great school faces the Great War https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/cornell-rewind-great-school-faces-great-war
  • Anne Tjomsland, Bellevue in France: Anecdotal History of Base Hospital No. 1. New York: Froben Press, 1941. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b744766&view=1up&seq=11
  • Anne Tjomsland papers, Cornell University Library https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02924.html
  • Authored The Saga of Hrafn Sveinbjarnarson: The Life of an Icelandic Physician of the Thirteenth Century, 1951 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Saga_of_Hrafn_Sveinbjarnarson.html?id=SkhiygAACAAJ
  • This Millennial’s Alter Ego is a Forgotten Female Surgeon from WWI, https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-millennial-s-alter-ego-is-a-forgotten-female-surgeon-from-wwi
  • Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Boulder: (University of Colorado Press, 1997): 164-166, 171. https://www.amwa-doc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/11091600.pdf

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  • New York, NY
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 82.
  • Service with the Women’s Oversea Hospitals https://www.amwa-doc.org/service-in-the-war/
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 23, 24. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • “Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
  • “Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
  • Mentioned in Albuquerque Morning Journal, June 13, 1922, page 5. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/217532158.pdf
  • Mentioned in “Fresh News From France of That Nation’s Needs,” New York Tribune, September 21, 1919. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-09-21/ed-1/seq-75/
  • Mentioned in “Women will care for troops gassed by Huns in France,” New York Tribune, Sunday, August 18, 1918, p. 9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-dr-alice-flood-works-w/73542285/ see full page of paper for full article.
  • See “A Third Unit for Women’s Overseas Hospitals,” in Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Thomas L. Steaman, ed. Volume 94 (July 6, 1918-December 28, 1918): p. 334. https://books.google.com/books?id=CGkwgsVRL6wC&pg=PA334&lpg=PA334&dq=%22dr.+alice+flood%22+new+york&source=bl&ots=mTUDNCYnB9&sig=ACfU3U3lnGcV-yzlCZaVbz

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  • Newark, NJ
  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 80-81.
  • “Dr. Marie Louise Lefort,” Newark Women https://newarkwomen.com/2022/02/23/dr-marie-louise-lefort/
  • “Dr. Lefort, Headed Hospital in France,” The New York Times, August 8, 1951, p. 25. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/08/08/88447050.html?pageNumber=25
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 9, 12, 18, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309
  • Egbert, Jean Pauline, “American Memorial Hospital: Reims,” The American Journal of Nursing 26, no. 11 (Nov 1926): p. 847-848. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3408310.pdf
  • American Memorial Hospital, Union des Maisons de Champagne. https://maisons-champagne.com/en/houses/heritage/rheims-and-surrounding-area/article/american-memorial-hospital
  • “The History of the American Hospital of Paris” Hauts-de-Seine Departmental Council of the Order of Physicians https://conseil92.ordre.medecin.fr/content/lhistoire-lhopital-americain-paris
  • American Memorial Hospital, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims, https://www.chu-reims.fr/le-chu/fonds-action/american-memorial-hospital/american-memorial-hospital
  • “Fresh News From France of That Nation’s Needs,” New York Tribune, September 21, 1919. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1919-09-21/ed-1/seq-75/
  • Mentioned in “Women will care for troops gassed by Huns in France,” New York Tribune, Sunday, August 18, 1918, p. 9. https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-dr-alice-flood-works-w/73542285/ see full page of paper for full article.
  • See “A Third Unit for Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” in Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Thomas L. Steaman, ed. Volume 94 (July 6, 1918-December 28, 1918): p. 334. https://books.google.com/books?id=CGkwgsVRL6wC&pg=PA334&lpg=PA334&dq=%22dr.+alice+flood%22+new+york&source=bl&ots=mTUDNCYnB9&sig=ACfU3U3lnGcV-yzlCZaVbzQVleYrShuhcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8hZOGlceFAxXFEVkFHTG7CV4Q6AF6BAgIEAM#v=onepage&q=%22dr.%20alice%20flood%22%20new%20york&f=false
  • “Doctors Composing Gas Unit, Women’s Oversea Hospitals,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 25, 1918, p. 20. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/paper/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/1890/
  • “Doctors of the Gas Unit of Women’s Oversea Hospitals” (photo and caption covering 2 pages) in The Woman Citizen, Vol 3 (October 19, 1918): 414-415. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000098651056&seq=424
  • Marie Louise Lefort Portrait Sculpture at the American Memorial Hospital in Reims https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Marie_Louise_Lefort_American_memorial_hospital.jpg

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 75-76, 79, 83.
  • See Chapter 13, “The Dental Service in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-1919: Organization, Administration, Personnel, Training, and Supply” in The History of Dentistry in the US Army to World War II. By John M. Hyson, Jr., DDS, Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, PhD, John T. Greenwood, PhD. (Washington DC: Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2008): 496. https://medcoe.army.mil/borden-tb-history-of-dentistry-to-wwii
  • “Women Dentists Will Send Unit Abroad,” Detroit Free Press, January 5, 1918, p. 7. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
  • “Women Doctors Cut Army Red Tape to Care for Wounded: Precedent Shattered in France When They Assist Male Surgeons” New York Tribune, July 4, 1918, p.4. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune/Herald Tribune
  • “Women Vets Organize to Aid Defense Plans,” Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960), September 24, 1940, p.6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe.
  • Married name Sophie Nevin Wemple

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  • Lemay, Kate Clarke. “Où Sont Les Dames?”: Suffragists and the American Women’s Oversea Hospitals Unit in France During World War I” in Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (Yale University Press, 2019): 69 picture and caption, 71, 72, 73, 77, 79, 83-84
  • Marr MC, Dupanovic I, Sefcsik VZ, Mehta N, Chin EL. They Were There: American Women Physicians and the First World War. Perm J. 2020 Sep;24:1-4. doi: 10.7812/TPP/20.032. PMID: 33482940; PMCID: PMC7849279.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7849279/
  • Women at War: Female Physicians’ Work During World War I, September 18, 2022, The Premed Scene https://www.thepremedscene.com/post/women-at-war-female-physicians-work-during-world-war-i
  • Beck, Melinda, “Why Suffragists Helped Send Women Doctors to WWI’s Front Lines,” History.com. https://www.history.com/news/wwi-women-doctors-suffragists-france
  • Cornell Medical School graduation date in “Cornell Rewind: A Great School Faces the Great War,” January 22, 2015. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/01/cornell-rewind-great-school-faces-great-war
  • See “Service with the Women’s Oversea Hospitals.” https://www.amwa-doc.org/service-in-the-war/
  • Report of the Women’s Oversea Hospitals. (New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1919.): 15, 23. See full pamphlet at https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/sc:29309

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